Further vicious allegations in the public Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook divorce saga have emerged, with Cook accusing the supermodel of 'throwing her family under a bus' to raise her profile.

In a TV interview he hit out at the former Sports Illustrated model, saying that by broadcasting her ongoing child custody battles in the media, she is harming their children.

Cook told ABC News he believed she was throwing her family 'under the bus' to drum up publicity for her return to Broadway.

Accusations: Peter Cook,left, said he believed his ex-wife, Christie Brinkley, right, was throwing her family 'under the bus' to drum up publicity for her return to Broadway

Former family: Christie Brinkley is joined by Peter Cook and children Sailor and Jack in New York in 2004

'She can use her celebrity to get the media to say 'He's a bad guy.' You know … I'm not trying to sell tickets to anything. I don't want this press. I'm not interested in it. And there's got to be a better way for her to do it. Go do a charitable act or something, get your name in the paper. But stop throwing your family under the bus,' the 53-year-old Hamptons architect told said in an interview.

Glamorous: Model Christie Brinkley pictured at a fashion show last month in New York

Cook accused Brinkley of making their latest court battle public 'to coincide with her return to the stage in Chicago.

'I don't know how you can ever rationalize your way out of fighting to have this private family matter become so public. And children will live with it forever,' he said. 'I mean, it used to be 40 years ago, it was in the newspaper and it ended up under a bird somewhere. But now it's Google eternity. This will never go away for my children,' he said.

In response to the comments Cook made during the interview, Brinkley's attorney, Tom Campagna, released the following statement:

'Peter Cook has repeatedly broken the confidentiality agreement that Christie has continued to uphold. Peter is the only one to go on national television spewing sexist, disgraceful, demonstrably false lies, which gives a taste of what Christie has had to endure since Peter betrayed his marriage vows. Peter embarrassed himself and hurt his family by having an affair with a teenage girl and admitting to an extensive pornography habit.'

The supermodel recently claimed that she is being bullied by him in a string of nasty emails.

Last weekend it was revealed that Ms Brinkley, 58, wants Mr Cook to cough up $140,000 in fines over the emails, in addition to $32,000 in expenses for their two children, including school tuition and summer camp fees.

A source told the New York Daily News: 'Peter keeps trying to control Christie, and he can’t deal with the fact that he can’t control her'.

Mr Campagna told the paper that a judge smacked Mr Cook with an order after their divorce that he be fined $5,000 for each time he got out of hand with Ms Brinkley.

She claims he has violated that order 28 times, but is not out for financial gain.

Happier times: Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook, pictured together in 2006, reached a divorce settlement in 2008 after months of very public court disputes

Christie Brinkley, right, has a daughter with first husband, Billy Joel, left, seen together in 1994

Mr Campagna told the Daily News: 'This is not about the money. This is about what we're calling bullying'.

Last week, Mr Cook lashed out at the supermodel in an explosive court document countering claims he owes her child support.

Mr Cook, 53, reignited their bitter custody dispute, claiming in a 91-page document at Suffolk County Supreme Court in New York that she owes him money - calling her a 'narcissistic egomaniac'.

The architect claims he is owed $25,000 from Ms Brinkley for caring for their children while she performed in Chicago on New York’s Broadway and London's West End, the New York Post reported.

He also claims Ms Brinkley is dragging their two children into their disputes, claiming she has called him 'truly narcissistic', and once wrote an email to their son that Mr Cook 'is jealous of my success'.

Ms Brinkley met Mr Cook in 1998 and had her third child, Sailor, with him.